A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.